The quilt makers of Gee’s Bend are part of a small community at a U-shaped bend in the Alabama River. They are mostly descendants of enslaved Africans who worked on a cotton plantation owned by Joseph ...

The route to Gee’s Bend, Alabama winds through forests of young longleaf pine and oak trees, and past acres of cotton planted in red earth. Buildings few and far between dot the road: low-slung homes, ...

Members of the Quilters of Gee’s Bend will lead quilt-making and sewing demonstrations and workshops in residence with University of Alabama at Birmingham Arts in Medicine from Feb. 26-29. The ...

Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Souls Grown Deep has announced that the annual Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts ...

The first newborn baby has been placed in a Safe Haven Baby Box -- and it was in Madison, Alabama, reports AL.com’s William Thornton. Safe Haven Baby Boxes are stations in the exterior walls of some ...

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated ...

BOYKIN, Ala. (WIAT) — The third annual Airing of the Quilts Festival in Gee’s Bend is set for this Saturday. The festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Gee’s Bend Welcome Center in ...

“Gee’s Bend,” a touching, inspirational play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, based on true events – with snippets of gospel music as a bonus – has opened in the Paul Robeson Theatre, directed by Thomas W ...

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated ...